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The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health is investigating a confirmed case of meningococcal infection, a communicable disease transmitted by direct contact with droplets from carriers or infected persons, and has appealed to the public for vigilance.
The case involves a 27-year-old man, with good past health, living in Wan Chai. The man travelled to Hokkaido, Japan, from December 4 to 8. He complained of fever, diarrhoea, chills and rigor since December 10. He sought medical consultation at St Paul's Hospital on December 11. He was transferred to Ruttonjee Hospital and was admitted to the hospital's Intensive Care Unit on the same day. A blood specimen taken from the patient grew Neisseria meningitidis. The man is now in serious condition. The CHP's investigation is continuing. This is the seventh confirmed case of meningococcal infection this year. Two cases each were reported in 2010 and 2009. No case was reported in 2008. A spokesman for the CHP said that meningococcal infection is caused by a bacterium known as meningococcus. It is transmitted by direct contact, including droplets from the nose and throat of infected people. The incubation period varies from two to 10 days, commonly three to four days. The clinical picture may vary. Severe illness may result when the bacterium invades the bloodstream (causing meningococcaemia) or the brain (causing meningitis). Meningococcaemia is characterised by the sudden onset of fever, intense headache, purpura, shock and even death in severe cases. Meningitis is characterised by the sudden onset of intense headache, fever, nausea, vomiting, photophobia and stiff neck. Early cases can be treated effectively with antibiotics. To prevent meningococcal infection, members of the public are advised to: * Wash hands frequently, and observe good personal and environmental hygiene practices; * Avoid crowded places; * Avoid close contact with patients who have fever or severe headache; and * Cover the nose and mouth while sneezing or coughing, and hold the spit with tissue and discard it into a bin with a lid, and wash hands immediately. Members of the public can visit the CHP's website, www.chp.gov.hk, for general information about the infection.
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This paper investigates the influence of women in politics on decision-making, specifically related to public educational expenditures. The study examines and controls for certain contexts that may affect the influence of female legislators, such as the presence of a left-wing government, the type of government, the political cycle, and the marriage status. Results suggest that the greater the representation of women in parliament, the higher the public educational expenditures. Additionally, the author concludes that because women and men play different roles in society and have different interests and priorities, it follows that women’s interests cannot be adequately represented in decision-making by men.View/Download


Humans have been studying horses for millennia, observing, investigating and dissecting horses' bodies to learn more about their anatomy, movement and behaviour.
Researchers at the Australian Institute of Anatomy in Canberra began amassing a suite of horse specimens, sourced from studs and racehorse owners, from the 1920s.
They collected, studied and displayed skeletal and wet specimens to enable people to make comparisons between horse and human movement, disease and malformation.
When the legendary Australian racehorse Phar Lap died in the United States in 1932, owner David Davis arranged for the horse's remains to be returned to Australia.
Phar Lap’s heart was analysed by researchers at the University of Sydney, and then acquired by and placed on display at the Australian Institute of Anatomy. Parts of Phar Lap’s heart were evidently removed during dissection of the organ.


Post-translational control of transcription factors: methylation ranks highly. Carr SM., Poppy Roworth A., Chan C., La Thangue NB.
Methylation of lysine and arginine residues on histones has long been known to determine both chromatin structure and gene expression. In recent years, the methylation of non-histone proteins has emerged as a prevalent modification which impacts on diverse processes such as cell cycle control, DNA repair, senescence, differentiation, apoptosis and tumourigenesis. Many of these non-histone targets represent transcription factors, cell signalling molecules and tumour suppressor proteins. Evidence now suggests that the dysregulation of methyltransferases, demethylases and reader proteins is involved in the development of many diseases, including cancer, and several of these proteins represent potential therapeutic targets for small molecule compounds, fuelling a recent surge in chemical inhibitor design. Such molecules will greatly help us to understand the role of methylation in both health and disease.


Super Simple CBT: Six Skills to Improve Your Mood in Minutes (Paperback) Quick skills grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you find lasting relief from the painful thoughts that drive anxiety, depression, and more.
In today's increasingly uncertain world, it's natural to feel anxious, scared, sad, lonely, angry, worried, or hopeless. Everybody experiences intense emotions sometimes. It's normal. But when the pain becomes too strong and too enduring, it's time for a change.
CBT is widely regarded as the gold standard in psychotherapy for treating anxiety and depression. Based on the self-help classic,
Thoughts and Feelings, this take-anywhere guide offers distilled CBT skills you can use anytime to challenge the negative thinking that leads to anxiety and depression, balance your emotions, and start engaging in activities that make you feel good about yourself. Most importantly, you'll learn how your thoughts affect your mood, and how changing your thoughts can actually change your life
This super simple guide presents the most effective therapy for managing anxiety and depression in an easy-to-read format that therapists can refer to clients, and readers can refer to again and again.


The April Gas Market Report of the International Energy Agency shows that demand for natural gas should increase by 3.2% compared to 2020. According to the agency, achieving such an increase would mean more than replacing the decline in demand last year.
According to the IEA, the increase in demand is due to the interplay of several factors. At the beginning of the year, very cold temperatures, especially in Northeast Asia and North America, had a significant impact on natural gas demand. A period of cold weather in January, together with limited LNG supply availability and logistical constraints on LNG transportation, led to local fuel shortages and an unprecedented surge in spot LNG prices in China, South Korea and Japan.
During that period, Europe played an important balancing role. Unlike the first half of last year, when Europe was absorbing LNG surpluses, the growing gap between European and Asian prices led to a diversion of LNG supplies to Asia. LNG imports fell by 40% between mid-December and mid-January. This decline was offset by an increase in pipeline and storage imports.
In contrast, Canada, the US and Mexico were particularly cold in February. In addition, rising demand for gas resulted in a decline in gas production due to the freezing of many wells. Although these winter storms contributed to some increase in heating demand, according to the IEA, they are not that significant for the changing the annual natural gas consumption forecast. For example, natural gas consumption in the US this winter remained below last winter’s level despite the frost in February.
According to the agency, global gas demand could increase by as much as 3.2% compared to last year, and this year’s increase could completely replace last year’s decline in consumption.
According to the IEA, last year global natural gas consumption fell by 75 billion cubic metres (bcm), or 1.9%, compared to 2019. This is the largest drop in global consumption ever recorded, but in a year-on-year comparison it is comparable with the fall in 2009.
One reason why the decline in consumption has not been more pronounced is that low gas prices have improved the competitiveness of gas resources and led to greater use of gas for electricity and heat generation. According to the agency, replacing coal with natural gas reduced CO2 emissions by 58 million tonnes in 2020.
However, in its analysis, the agency stresses that achieving the projected increase will largely depend on economic recovery and other factors. Most of the expected growth is expected to take place in Asia and other fast-growing markets. On the contrary, for developed markets, the IEA foresees a more gradual recovery, and in some even remaining below 2019 levels.
By Martin Chomsky (photo: EUGAL)


Issue 2 How Followers’ Perception of Insider Status Influences the Relationship Between Servant Leadership and Work Attitude? International Journal of Organizational Leadership, 2022, Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages 127-140 DOI: 10.33844/ijol.2022.60623
Servant leadership starts with an individual whose main interests are to serve, inspire and lead followers. Thus, the servant leader is an individual who is always pursuing and looking for better ways to achieve shared goals with fellow workers. The current study investigates the influencing mechanism of servant leadership on job satisfaction based on the social identity theory. Specifically, the purpose of this study is to develop a model of perceived insider status that mediates the relationships between servant leadership and employee job satisfaction. Data were collected from matched 90 leaders and 285 followers from the service industry in Taiwan. To avoid common method variance issue, we collected data across three-time points from two different sources. The statistical analyses included descriptive analysis, correlational approach, confirmatory factor analysis, and multi-level analyses. Using the bootstrapping method, the indirect effects of servant leadership on job satisfaction via perceived insider status were found to be significant. This study underscores the importance of encouraging leaders to engage in servant leader behaviors, thereby enhancing followers’ perception as insiders and improving followers' job satisfaction. Since servant leaders focus on employee-oriented tactics, it is essential to train leaders to enhance followers’ intrinsic motivation and shape their perceptions of belongingness and effectiveness.
International Journal of Organizational Leadership, 2022, Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages 141-163 DOI: 10.33844/ijol.2022.60624
The paper includes a Systematic Literature Review of the tools for detecting and/or measuring Ethical Leadership in the business world published between 2000 and 2020. The review attempts to explore, analyze and synthesize the most recent evidence from the field with the aim to summarize and integrate knowledge regarding Ethical Leadership. Our goal is to build a documentation framework for further research and future design of a more concise and accurate tool covering all possible aspects of Ethical Leadership. We choose the Systematic Literature Review method because it is structured and minimizes subjectivity when selecting and analyzing data. Our work addresses researchers/scholars, postgraduate students, PhD candidates, and private and public sector officials who need scientific evidence to support decision-making and/or policy designing.
International Journal of Organizational Leadership, 2022, Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages 164-188 DOI: 10.33844/ijol.2022.60625
Research evidence linking managing group dynamic (GPD) to the effectiveness of academic and non-academic staff of Nigerian universities, is ostensibly scarce. While existing studies have majorly addressed the performance impact of group dynamics in general perspectives, there is a gap in gauging how managing dynamics in groups could lead to the effectiveness of staff of Nigerian universities. Built on two complementary theories, the study has sought to investigate the relationship between pooled constructs of group dynamics, including social integration (SI), team leadership (TL), interpersonal facilitation (IF), group efficacy (GE); and effectiveness of university staff in those measures as in productivity (PD), adaptability (AD), and flexibility (FL). The sample size of 253 staff was selected from 2050 staff, and a self-structured questionnaire was designed. Instrument reliability was confirmed for the individual construct of GPD and staff effectiveness (SE) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) which was used to validate the instruments. The frequency and percentage table, means, and standard deviations were engaged as descriptive tools. Linear and multiple regressions and variance inflation factor were designed to test hypotheses and relationships. Findings revealed a significant statistical relationship between the dimensions of GPD and measures of staff effectiveness except for the dimension of GPD (SI) with a weak aggregate predictive contribution. The study posited the need for management of the federal universities to forge integration with staff through adapting strategies of group dynamics to improve the effectiveness of academic and non-academic staff of universities. Especially, staff with innate creative ability and genius for innovation should be supported and motivated to reach their potential.
International Journal of Organizational Leadership, 2022, Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages 189-205 DOI: 10.33844/ijol.2022.6026
Team leadership in healthcare settings plays a fundamental role in ensuring that high-quality patient care is delivered. This study is the first to explore team leadership behaviors from the viewpoint of Iranian healthcare team members. This qualitative study was performed using directed content analysis. Face-to-face, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 healthcare team members between October 2019 and June 2020. After each interview, the transcripts and related notes were read several times, semantic units were identified, and related codes were labeled. The specified codes were organized into subcategories and categories based on a predetermined framework placed in three main categories: transition, action, and interpersonal skills. Behaviors extracted from the transcripts consisted of 83 codes placed in 21 subcategories, and nine categories were assigned to three main categories of the predetermined framework. In the transition processes, situational analysis, teambuilding, debriefing, and feedback-seeking were the most influential leadership behaviors on the success of teamwork from the participants' viewpoints, especially members of surgical and emergency teams. Clinical competency, resource management, and coordination were more important leadership behaviors in the action processes, particularly in the opinion of attending doctors and nurses. Most participants emphasized conflict management, stress management, speaking up, encouragement, and accountability in interpersonal processes. This study improves our understanding of the leadership behaviors that influence successful teamwork achievement in healthcare settings. The findings have implications for further research and the enhancement of team leadership in healthcare settings, the development of structured team leadership training programs, and reliable assessment tools.
A Phenomenological Investigation on Ethical Leadership and Workplace Engagement from a Multi-Cultural Perspective International Journal of Organizational Leadership, 2022, Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages 206-234 DOI: 10.33844/ijol.2022.60327
Despite continuous attempts to introduce employee engagement measures, leaders worldwide have been increasingly concerned about diminishing employee engagement levels. The issue of workplace engagement continues to be a source of contention for academics and practitioners alike. There is still a need to comprehend this phenomenon since previous research lacks a thorough understanding of employee work engagement concerning ethical leadership. This qualitative study explores the perceptions of the leaders working in service organizations regarding ethical leadership on employee work engagement in three countries, i.e., Malaysia, Turkey, and Pakistan. The phenomenon of work engagement was explored in this study. The theory of self-determination supports the proposed theoretical framework of the current study. Purposive sampling was applied to select 28 leaders in the service sector. Semi-structured interviews were performed to understand employee engagement better using participant observations, opinions, strategic perspectives, and the employee handbook and recordings of interviews and meetings with service sector leaders. The findings highlighted eight major ethical leadership themes suggested by 28 managers in the interviews. Eight themes of ethical leadership are (1) Role Modeling, (2) Trust, (3 Honesty, (4) Integrity, (5) Justice, (6) Religiosity, (7) Responsibility, (8) Intellectual competence. The present study found that leaders applying different strategies and understanding the importance of employee engagement could improve employee engagement and have a more robust workforce and beneficial organization.
The Conceptual Review on the Impact of Organizational Justice on Workplace Deviance and the Mediating Role of Psychological Contract Breach International Journal of Organizational Leadership, 2022, Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages 235-252 DOI: 10.33844/ijol.2022.60328
The prevalence of deviant behavior such as fraud, robbery, withholding effort, hostile acts, and sexual harassment in the workplace is a major problem for organizations. For good reasons, it is highly significant for executives and researchers to avoid deviant activity in the workplace. A recent report revealed that employees are found to be more involved than customers in deviant activities at the workplace. One in every fifteen employees steals from their employer.” The study finds that 33 to 75% of all workers have participated in deviant behaviors, and as many as 42% of women have been sexually abused at work. This article aims to analyze the phenomena of workplace deviance and destruction caused by workplace deviance in the form of huge psychological and financial losses to organizations. First, we discuss the need for research on workplace deviance, especially in the collectivistic culture, by reviewing previous studies from deviance literature. Next, we present the role of organizational justice in triggering workplace deviance. Then we also propose a new mediating variable in the form of a Psychological Contract Breach between Organizational justice and Workplace deviance. This paper also contributes significantly to the dimensions/facets of Organizational Justice. The presented theoretical framework can be useful for conducting future empirical research. Finally, we present the conclusion and future research in conducting cross-national research with respect to workplace deviance.


This Video Explains the Reason Why Planes Avoid Flying Over the Pacific Ocean
You may have noticed that plane paths tend to avoid going over the Pacific Ocean. This may seem like a safety issue.
After all, the Pacific is the largest and deepest of the world's oceans. If a plane encounters a problem over it, the pilots will have a rough time finding a place to land.
So if you guessed security, well you're not entirely wrong. When planning a route many pilots prefer to maximize the number of airports on it as a security measure.
However, it isn't the main reason why planes avoid the Pacific Ocean. The real main reason has to do with saving fuel and time.
After all, airplanes are a business and businesses depend on profitability. How does this reason work? Well, we won't tell you that as
BRIGHT SIDE does a great job of explaining it in this video.
Make sure to watch it and learn the real main reason airlines avoid the Pacific Ocean.
mRNA biotechnology stands to revolutionize healthcare by giving clinicians the power to direct our bodies to make the specific proteins we need.


Indonesia witnessed the largest YoY decline (60%) in fraud rates to 0.5% whereas Thailand and Vietnam saw lowest fraud rates in APAC at 0.3%.
APAC experienced the lowest overall sophisticated invalid traffic (SIVT)/fraud violation rates at 0.8%, compared to North America (1.5%), EMEA (1.6%), and LATAM (1.1%). This is according to DoubleVerify, a leading software platform for digital media measurement, data and analytics.
Indonesia witnessed the largest YoY decline (60%) in fraud rates to 0.5% whereas Thailand and Vietnam saw lowest fraud rates in APAC at 0.3%.
These insight comes from its 2021 Global Insights Report, an annual study on the current state of media quality and performance on the Internet.
APAC Insights from the report
“Now more than ever, global advertisers demand greater clarity and confidence in their digital investments,” said Mark Zagorski, CEO of DoubleVerify. “Brands want evidence of campaign quality and performance to maximise the effectiveness of online advertising. This report reflects the key challenges affecting the ad ecosystem globally – benchmarking the industry at large, while offering in-depth data and analytics to help brands optimise digital strategies.”
DoubleVerify also shared the following findings from its report encompassing verified video impressions, brand suitability violations, and viewability rates across the region.
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Mobile Leads the Way in APAC: 88% of DV verified video impressions in APAC are delivered through mobile devices, almost doubling that of the rest of the world at 45%. Quality in this channel has also improved. App fraud dropped from 12% to 3% of total fraud/SIVT, and mobile app video viewability increased by 26%, giving APAC an 80% mobile app video viewability rate.
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Outperforming in AVOC: Over 60% of video ads in APAC are delivered to mobile apps, which has positively impacted overall video performance in audible and in-view on completion (AVOC). APAC’s overall AVOC rate at 34% across all environments is 2.5 times higher than the global average of 11%.
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Strides in Addressing Brand Suitability Violations: APAC saw a significant 25% YoY decrease in brand suitability violations, dropping from 11.4% to 8.5%. This meant that it overtook both the EMEA (9.8%) and LATAM (9.2%), trailing only the mature North America market (6.9%).
○ Malaysia: 61% decrease in violations
○ Philippines: 43% decrease in violations
○ Thailand: 36% decrease in violations
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More Can be Done to Improve Viewability: Despite APAC advertisers achieving a 4% YoY increase in display viewable rate at 62%, it still trails other regions. APAC performed better when it came to video viewability. After a 12% YoY increase, APAC’s video viewable rate was 74%, which is ahead of North America while still trailing EMEA and LATAM.
○ Japan was an exception to the region, as it almost doubled its video viewable rates (94% YoY increase) to 82%
For the study, DoubleVerify said it analysed more than one trillion impressions in 80 markets across more than 2,100 brands. The report provides a market-by-market analysis for North America, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC of video and display impressions measured year-over-year (YoY) from May 2020 to April 2021 across desktop and mobile web, mobile app, and CTV.


If you are injured in a car accident, you are entitled to “no fault” benefits under your own policy of insurance with ICBC. You are entitled to these benefits even if you are found entirely at fault for the accident.
These include reasonable and necessary expenses related to medical expenses and therapies up to a maximum limit of $150,000.00. These benefits also include wage loss benefits (called Total Term Disability Benefits or TTDs) where you were working at the time of the accident.
You may also be entitled to homemaker disability benefits where the injuries prevent you from regularly performing your household tasks. We can help you access these benefits and start your recovery process promptly.


A Look Back on A Year of Achievements: A Way Forward in Sudan
This article is part of a series of ‘In Focus’ pieces which look at some of our key achievements over the past year.
In this article, our Legal Advisor Julie Bardeche focuses on the continuing efforts of REDRESS to advocate for the introduction of anti-torture reforms in the post-Bashir era in Sudan.
The regime of former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir had a long history of using torture to silence critics, and perpetrators operated with impunity.
The ousting of Al-Bashir in April 2019 moved Sudan into an era of fast-paced change under a transitional government, presenting an opportune moment to implement effective anti-torture reforms, for which REDRESS and its partners in Sudan have advocated for years.
To capitalise on this critical juncture in Sudanese history, a joint report by REDRESS and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) provided a roadmap for eradicating torture in the post-Bashir era. Published in December 2019, the report
A Way Forward? Anti-Torture Reforms in Sudan in the Post-Bashir era, identified practical and effective recommendations for Sudan to comply with its international obligations to prevent, investigate and prosecute torture and provide victims with reparations.
Our concerted, long-term advocacy in Sudan has seen some clear results this year. In November 2019, a series of public order laws, ostensibly designed to protect public morality, were repealed. Our 2017 report,
Criminalisation of Women in Sudan: A Need for Fundamental Reform, showed that these laws effectively controlled women’s engagement in public life and disproportionately targeted them for torture and ill-treatment, including flogging.
Announcing the reforms, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok called the laws “an instrument of exploitation, humiliation, violation and aggression on the rights of citizens”. Since the publication of our roadmap in December, the transitional government has also committed to further reforms which will move Sudan closer towards complying with its international human rights obligations.
These include strengthening legal protections against torture, removing immunities to prosecution for members of the Sudanese security services, mandating a Commission to reform the Sudanese legal system, and a commitment to ratify the UN Convention Against Torture and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances.
Photo credit: David Rose/PANOS Pictures.


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Community Representative
The Community Learning Centre Initiative is a network of 37 English community schools which support the holistic development of citizens and communities. CLCs provide a range of services and activities, often beyond the school day, to help meet the needs of learners, their families, and the wider community.
All across Quebec and Canada, people are concerned about the success of our students, the strength of our schools, and the sustainability of our communities. Our model is based on the belief that by working together, our children can succeed, our schools will contribute to the revitalization of English-speaking minority communities, and our communities contribute to strong and vibrant schools.
Based on the recognition that it takes a village to raise a child, the community schools movement is growing in Europe, Australia, the USA, and Canada. CLCs are transforming schools into ‘community schools’, providing a range of resources, services and activities, during and beyond the school day, to support the holistic development of students, their families, and the wider community. Each CLC is unique, adapting to the communities they serve, and are focused on two main objectives: enhancing student success and preserving the vitality of the English community.
Team: Ben Loomer, Allison Gonsalves, Paule Langevin, Emma Legault, and Debbie Horrocks.
2030 Dagenais Blvd. West
2nd Floor Laval (Québec) H7L 5W2 Tel: 450.622.2212 Toll Free: 1.888.622.2212 Fax: 450.622.1460 E-mail: clcinfo@learnquebec.ca


Folks with complex PTSD from chronic childhood trauma and those with PTSD due to traumatic events, such as a school shooting, have triggers. A trigger is anything that reminds them of a previous traumatic event. It causes a strong reaction, making them feel as if they were reliving the event all over again.
Triggers are ubiquitous in the mental health arena in the form of emotional activation, physical symptoms such as a racing heart, crisis situations and de-escalation, coping skills in psychoeducation, and just about every form of therapy. Our society now uses the term for any mundane experience eliciting any reaction.
Triggers are often considered bad, specifically for those of us who have experienced relational trauma in childhood. Many perceive them as something to avoid, be ashamed of, and either hide from or over-share with others. Most likely within our family environments, our logical responses to pain are transformed into signs of weakness. Others often hear the word “trigger” and think, “you’re crazy,” then diminish our needs as frivolous to break down our boundaries and meet their own needs.
Why We Misinterpret Triggers
When we feel agitated and panicked in response to some stimuli, regardless of what it is, and when all our energies — physical, emotional, spiritual — tell us something is excruciating, it has to be loud. This is because we have learned not to listen.
We are taught not to honor those signals, that the problem is in us for overreacting to something supposedly benign. This is nonsense, yet our parents and others taught us not to trust our perceptions and make accurate meanings of them. These meanings become natural to us because we needed our parents for survival, so we were essentially coded not to listen to ourselves, trust ourselves, or find things that bring us joy and inspire us.
It can take a lifetime to recognize that these meanings for our pain are illogical. This is why it is essential to work with a therapist who can effectively support you and help you notice that your perception is skewed in ways that make you feel invalid and offers little language or meaning for inspiration, peace, or contentment.
Learn to Listen to Your Feelings
The next time you feel triggered, take a moment to step back internally and observe what is happening in your body biologically. Notice your first response to these sensations — is it a desire to make them go away as fast as possible?
What kind of images do these sensations bring to mind? Perhaps a boot on the chest, frozen, pulsing. A leap into a hot cauldron of stew? That’s some of my own internal imagery, but what is yours? You may be able to assign a body movement with the experience.
Next, look around, assess the facts of the situation, and overlay them on the imagery. Do they fit together? You may have to play with it, but you’ll know whether it works.
What Our Past Experiences Can Teach Us
I know that something fits because I recognize it the same way I experienced the feelings I had at 12 years old at a community center dance when they played Billie Jean by Michael Jackson. I recognize the sensations the song evokes even though it took me a while to remember the dance intellectually.
This process helps me make sense of my current experience by way of that past experience. Billie Jean elicits both joy and pain for me; joy from being one with the music and pain from the intense loneliness of keeping family secrets and hiding my distress. Now, when I recognize those sensations at other times, I can tap into my body telling me that I might be experiencing loneliness or a lack of connection, and I find ways to connect with others.
When we honor the messages our senses offer and learn to recognize them with increasing refinement, we develop our own glossary and know how to meet our needs in those times. When we meet our needs, those triggers don’t have to get so loud, building trust in ourselves and gaining a more nuanced sense of self. This is where you will find the center of you.


CPA firms receiving requests from lenders for creditworthiness verifications for clients who had requested Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans were often unsure of how to respond. The advice CAMICO gave CPAs assisting their clients with PPP loan applications is valid for similar circumstances in which a lender wishes the borrower’s CPA to provide creditworthiness feedback to the lender.
Many lenders, in response to economic challenges precipitated by the pandemic, stated they needed borrowers’ accountants to sign financial statements supporting borrower loan applications. Government regulations did not require this step. CAMICO has historically cautioned accountants not to accommodate such requests. Accommodating these requests is not required and could violate professional standards were the accountant to provide assurances regarding a borrower’s solvency or ability to repay the debt.
CAMICO discourages accountants from communicating directly with lenders. If the accountant were to choose to do so, then CAMICO offers its policyholders wording to specify the services performed, point out those services did not contemplate accommodating their request, and indicate the lender would need to rely on its own underwriting procedures. Prior to the issuance of Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARS) No. 21 in October 2014, accountants were required to perform a compilation of financial statements engagement when they chose to accommodate lenders’ requests for financial statements. AR-C Section 70 of SSARS No. 21 introduced the preparation of financial statement engagement. CPAs whose license does not permit them to compile financial statements are not prohibited from performing preparation of financial statement engagements. Accountants who perform this service typically do not issue a report and instead prepare financial statements with a legend appearing on each page which clearly states no assurance is provided.
However, accountants may issue a disclaimer report when engaged to perform a preparation of financial statements. CAMICO has steadfastly discouraged accountants from using the disclaimer report option, as doing so would eliminate the anonymity associated with the typical “legend” approach, which does not require a disclaimer.
AR-C 70 mandates each page of prepared financial statements and related disclosures include a statement indicating no assurance is provided. AR-C 70 does not prescribe specific language. CAMICO recommends practitioners use the legend
“No CPA provides any assurance on these financial statements”
, so financial statement readers aware of the CPA’s association with the financial statements don’t mistakenly interpret the abbreviated “no assurance is provided” to mean the client isn’t providing assurance, but presume the CPA is providing assurance.
The scenario when lenders request financial statements signed by the accountant is the exception that defines the rule regarding disclaimers.
If
the lender insists on receiving a “financial statement signed by the borrower’s accountant,” instead of performing a compilation engagement, CPAs can accommodate the request by performing a preparation engagement and issuing a disclaimer report. CPAs choosing this path will need to obtain a signed engagement letter detailing the client’s and accountant’s mutual responsibilities. Neither the compilation report nor the disclaimer report provides assurance, but the language in a disclaimer is concise, and if the firm is not already subject to peer review, the engagement would not subject the firm to peer review. When compelled to sign a report and a disclaimer is added, the “legend” is no longer required, but CAMICO encourages accountants to use the “belt and suspenders” approach and in addition to the disclaimer report, have each page of the financial statements and disclosures include the aforementioned “legend.”
An illustrative disclaimer might read:
The accompanying financial statements of [entity] as of and for the year ended [date], were not subjected to an audit, review, or compilation engagement by [me/us], and [I/we] do not express an opinion or a conclusion, nor provide any assurance on them.
[Signature of [accounting firm/accountant]]
[Accountant’s city and state] [Date] must issue must consider must specify why
To be clear, accountants may opt to perform a compilation engagement instead of performing a preparation engagement. However, accountants performing compilations will be subject to peer review,
a report (before SSARS No. 21, management use only compilations did not require a report),
whether they are independent and if NOT independent
in their compilation engagement letters and their compilation reports that they are not independent. CAMICO discourages CPAs from indicating
their independence is impaired, because were they to do so, AR-C 80 requires accountants to indicate in their report each reason their independence is impaired, and accountants could inadvertently omit a reason.


With the enormous and unavoidable changes experienced in the current world, progress and change have never been so significant. Ask any thought leader or prominent business person, and they will state that innovation plays a significant role in the success and relevancy of a business. Therefore, each business must keep up with the trends to remain relevant. Disruptive ideas like artificial intelligence, block chain, biometrics, and machine learning must be prioritized in each company. Living in a global economy dictates that each business compete globally. Thus, organizations must plan events and seminars that foster collaboration among the staff and invite innovation keynotes and speakers, to facilitate them.
Who are Innovation Keynote Speakers
An innovation keynote speaker includes a disruptor and a visionary usually ahead of the game. These speakers typically work in various industries and can foresee what will happen in years to come. Innovation keynote speakers can be professors, government officials, CEOs, scientists, programmers, or young entrepreneurs leading in their expertise sector. These speakers are helpful professionals in the realm of presenters as they spark your staff’s imagination. Also, they provide insights regarding the expected future occasions in a given industry.
Further, innovation keynote speakers involve professionals constantly learning and improving themselves through research and trial and error processes. These speakers participate in testing technologies and theories to observe their impact and how they can make lives better. Innovation speakers take courses, attend seminars, communicate with professionals from other industries, and read motivational books to ensure they are ahead of the game. These activities guarantee them a competitive leading edge in their trade.
What is the Role of an Innovation Keynote Speaker?
Generally, a keynote speaker involves a professional public speaker who speaks with an aim of motivating and inspiring their audience. An Innovation keynote speaker will introduce the attendees to the trending or the new features in the industry, as well as help the audience understand the significance of these trends or new features. These speakers also guarantee your audience the best insights that cannot be derived from the internet or books. This is achieved as the professionals spend quality time, effort, and money trying new strategies and ideas.
Generally, their speech aims to impact and inspire the attendees to visualize the direction things are headed. Also, the audience gets tips on utilizing the information provided to see opportunities and gaps in the industry, thus translating them into businesses.
Why You Should Hire an Innovation Keynote Speaker
There are various reasons why you should hire innovation speakers, and they include;
They help reinforce and build a common language of innovation. Inviting these speakers helps employees better understand their roles in innovation. Help start an honest dialogue regarding the significance of innovation in your business’s future. To welcome more perspectives to the existing innovation conversations They help in the creation of fresh ideas which inspire fresh insights Help reduce or eliminate innovation fear in a business To lay a foundation for developing an innovation infrastructure Help reinforce and increase employee’s energy and commitment to innovation
You can contact BigSpeak Speakers Bureau for the best innovative speakers.


We are committed to inclusive, meaningful and responsive communication and engagement to support our decisions so we can deliver informed leadership and decision making.
We engage to understand and consider the priorities, needs and aspirations of our diverse communities in our decision-making process.
Community input helps shape our region’s planning, services, facilities and amenities, contributing to a sustainable, affordable and vibrant future.
Our policy and framework
On 15 June 2022, Council adopted a renewed Community Engagement Policy, which outlines Council's commitment to community engagement. Our policy is in line with legislative requirements and contemporary industry practice.
Our policy is supported by our Community Engagement Framework, which outlines Council’s approach to engaging with our communities. It covers our overarching principles, engagement process and how we use the information you share with us.
Our Principles
Our principles guide our engagement and support meaningful conversations and consistency across Council projects.
Collaborative We work together with our stakeholders and communities to build purposeful relationships and develop mutual understanding. Inclusive We enable participation for those who contribute to, influence or are affected by our work where possible. We actively seek to include people of different ages, genders, sexual orientations, incomes, abilities and disabilities, religions, backgrounds, and cultures. Transparent Work with other stakeholders to achieve shared goals. We will be honest and open in our engagement. We will be clear about what we are engaging on and how decisions will be made. We will share the results of engagement with our communities. Timely We will provide information to our communities with enough time for people to access, understand, consider, and participate in the process before we make a decision. Responsive We recognise engagement is a dynamic, ongoing process that requires us to be flexible and responsive to our current operating environment and feedback from our communities. Measurable We will monitor and evaluate our engagement activities to help us improve over time Our Process
Community engagement should be a carefully planned process that applies a level of consistency across our activities. It is not a one size fits all approach. We tailor our engagement by following these steps:
Discover: Analyse needs and understand the context. Develop: Prepare the Community Engagement Plan Deliver: Implement the engagement plan. Debrief: Evaluate and report on engagement. Council decison: Council considers many factors in making a decision including ocmmunity input. Our Approach
Every project is unique. The level of engagement will be determined by the complexity of the issues and the potential for the community to influence the outcomes.
There are a range of circumstances where Council will not engage, such as urgent decisions or confidential matters.
Council is guided by leading industry practice, such as the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2), as well as legislative requirements, such as the Local Government Act 2009. Our engagement approach includes three levels: inform, consult and participate.
T ypes of projects where we engage Types of projects where we don't engage


The data security ecosystem includes SIEM technologies, which collect data from various systems and analyze it to identify unusual behavior or potential threats. SIEM technologies offer a central location to gather events and warnings, but they can be costly, and resource-intensive, and customers claim that it is frequently challenging to handle issues using
siem solution. What is the SIEM?
The primary functionality of security information and event management (SIEM) solutions continues to serve as the most effective basis for any organization’s technological stack even though these solutions have been around for more than ten years and have undergone significant evolution. A company can use a SIEM system to acquire real-time visibility into activities that could expose it to risk by centrally collecting data from across its entire network environment.
To gain visibility into network activity, organizations can use SIEM technology. This enables them to address problems before they pose a serious financial risk. Additionally, it aids in the management of corporate assets.
Microsoft Sentinel: What is it?
Previously called Azure Sentinel, the
microsoft sentinel is now known as. Security operation analysts use Microsoft Sentinel, a cloud-based SIEM (Security Information Event Management) and SOAR (Security Orchestration Automated Response) application, to gather data from various sources and offer security insights to the company.
Microsoft Sentinel utilizes machine learning and threat intelligence from Microsoft to instantly identify and look into threats and shady behavior. It automates security to maintain your company’s safety and responds fast to any weaknesses. It integrates threat visibility, proactive hunting, alarm detection, and threat response into a single system. All of your online accounts are controlled by Microsoft Sentinel.


Abstract: Several Iranian and Arab fuqaha ’, philosophers and members of the administrative elite contested the mujtahids’ legal authority derived from an association between juridical rationalism and imperial power in the sixteenth century. I delineate the growing skepticism about the mujtahids’ epistemic base, which led to the formation of akhbarism, juridical traditionism, by Muhammad Amin Astarabadi (d.1033). I examine Astarabadi’s approach to the use of logic, forms of analogical reasoning, and ‘empirical’ methods for verifying the ahadith at the hands of usulis (rationalists), like al-Shahid al-Thani, and al-Muhaqqiq al-Karaki. I also investigate how akhbarism, which theoretically advocated a negation of authority for the jurist, promoted itself as an alternative to usuli- ijtihadi Shi’ism.
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Approximately 12 million Australians, or three-fifths of the population, fear they will not have enough money saved for retirement, according to a nationwide poll.
Finder’s research revealed that an alarming 28 percent of respondents do not believe they will have enough retirement savings to retire.
18% of respondents stated that they had gathered sufficient funds for a happy retirement.
The survey of 1057 adults indicated that men are significantly more confident about their capacity to retire comfortably than women; 26% of men are convinced they have enough money to live comfortably in retirement, compared to only 11% of women.
Alison Banney from Finder stated that inadequate retirement savings are an increasing problem.
She stated that “millions of Australians are unable to save enough to quit their occupations.”
Most people aim to retire in their mid-60s, but many do not have sufficient funds to do so comfortably.
Also less than 18 percent of Australians make extra salary sacrifice payments to their superannuation, according to the data.
Those with additional savings contribute an average of $713 per month.
The survey indicated that one-third of Australians stated they will “manage” in retirement but will have to reduce their spending.
The rising cost of living since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as well as the Reserve Bank’s several rate increases has put a lot of pressure on household budgets.
Banney advised individuals to prioritise bolstering their retirement savings.


The loss of the planet’s abundant biodiversity, fertile soil, and seeds puts your ability to survive considerably in peril. By storing carbon emissions underground,
regenerative agriculture aids in the fight against the global warming catastrophe. Regenerative farming techniques result in carbon sequestration, which lowers the number of greenhouse gases in the environment. It outlines a comprehensive method of farming that promotes ongoing innovation and enhancement of ecological, societal, and economic standards. What Distinguishes Regenerative Agricultural Practices from Sustainable Agriculture?
Regenerative practices recognise that natural technologies are typically impacted and apply management strategies to restore the ecosystem to its natural state. Sustainable practices such as
regenerative agriculture help ensure precisely that. Why Use Regenerative Farming Methods?
Regenerative farming encompasses more than just preserving or recovering forests. It enhances soil fertility and adds organic matter. Regenerative methods have several positive environmental effects, including strengthening biodiversity, reducing emissions to the environment with fewer chemical inputs, and sequestering carbon to prevent emissions to the atmosphere. Here are some uses in favour of using regenerative farming techniques:
1 Cut Back on the Use of Synthetic Fertilisers
Because synthetic fertilisers disrupt the natural methods through which plants acquire nutrients. This alters the balance of soil bacteria making the soil unfarmable after a few agricultural cycles. As a result, the agroecosystem has weak plants that rely on synthetic fertilisers. Moreover, the detrimental impacts of chemicals leaking into underground freshwater resources and the environment from artificial fertiliser exacerbate the climate catastrophe. On the other hand, a regenerative farming method generally tries to maintain a link between entirely natural soil and vegetation organisms.
2 Reduce Soil Loss
Traditionally, contaminants separating two crops got removed by using tillage. However, the proliferation of this practice has significantly degraded the soil. Avoiding mechanical soil disturbance is the first objective of regenerative farming to allow for natural changes between two harvests. It disturbs the topmost layer of soil and is less disruptive than traditional tillage. Using a specialised seeder involves sowing the seeds straight into the ground without removing the cover crops. This method preserves the integrity of the soil.
3 Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
One of the primary causes of global warming is greenhouse gases, and today’s modern food production produces about 26% of these emissions. The problem is resolved by regenerative farming.
4 Fighting Climate Change
While a reduction in GHG emissions alone is insufficient to slow climate change, it can complement soil carbon sequestration, which is made possible by implementing regenerative farm management. It also decreases water pollution by reducing chemical inputs, including contributions to toxic algal blooms.
5 Encourage Biodiversity
Versatile species are advantageous for the farming industry and environmental sustainability, which is crucial in regenerative farming. A more well-balanced diet is made possible because of the variety of produced crops. Additionally, by improving the performance of soil microbial communities, strategies that prefer biological over artificial inputs help to restore below-ground biodiversity.
6 Community Advantages
Networks of farmers who share knowledge, benefit from one another and foster a sense of community. Visits to farms and ranches and networks of farmers’ markets that assist farmers and ranchers help strengthen connections between their products and consumers.
Final Thoughts
As it is currently understood,
regenerative agriculture aims to actively affect the soil, human health, and the environment and can sustain production. When you choose foods from regenerative farming, you’re serving the healthiest food possible and reducing your environmental impact.


This final report constitutes the final deliverable in the mid-term evaluation of the AIMS MS4CR programme (hereafter referred to as “the MTE”). As per the agreement between IDRC/GAC and the AIMS Secretariat, this external evaluation was commissioned to review and document results from the MS4CR. The evaluation is both summative and formative in nature. It covers the period 2017-2020. The present report follows a data collection phase conducted from March to June 2021. It was drafted based on an extensive desk review, data analysis, bibliometric analysis, interviews with around 40 stakeholders, a peer review of the curricula, and a learning workshop organised September 15th. The evaluation concludes that the AIMS MS4CR programme is highly relevant and is performing satisfactorily. Despite problems at the programme’s inception, and difficulties associated with COVID 19, most elements of the programme have started and have achieved their first results.


Stay with the Father
Knowing truth and experiencing truth can be two very different things. Most of the Church has come to accept that God’s presence is always with them. We know we have positional righteousness with God through the blood of Jesus, and we are blameless before Him without any condemnation. We sometimes fail to understand how the experience of that positional truth operates. A majority of believers live their daily lives without ever experiencing the presence of God, even though He is with them all the time. In order for us to experience the Father’s presence daily, we have to
stay with Him. He stays with me according to His blood that paid the price to make me His temple, but I stay with Him according to the renewing of my mind.
Paul writes to the Romans concerning this, “Beloved friends, what should be our proper response to God’s marvelous mercies? I encourage you to surrender yourselves to God to be his sacred, living sacrifices. And live in holiness, experiencing all that delights his heart. For this becomes your genuine expression of worship. Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly
transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern God’s will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes. (Romans 12:1-2 TPT, emphasis added)”
Our experience with the Father is directly related to the thoughts we think about Him, and toward Him. It is as simple as acknowledging His presence. The word acknowledge is defined as the act of knowing. He is as close as turned attention, and His presence as perceivable as a single thought. When you set your mind on Him by faith, you have just taken the first step to encounter the Father’s presence. The Father is, and always has been committed to staying with us, but He is searching the earth for those who have learned how to stay with Him. We all know that it is possible for a person to be in the same room with you and that person’s presence has little to no effect on you. It’s possible for God to be in a room and be ignored. Imagine that! We can overlook the God of the universe.
Staying with the Father requires me to receive His embrace experientially on a daily basis. It isn’t enough just to acknowledge the power and reality of His presence with me. I must come to a revelation of the nature and affection of the Father. The Father is good beyond our comprehension. In prayer, I regularly have a conversation with the Father like this in faith, “Thank You for loving me even in my weakness. You have led me to this point and I am not the same person I used to be. You met me in my brokenness, and I know Your love is stronger than any of my weaknesses or insecurities. I receive Your embrace. I know that You love me with a love that’s beyond my comprehension. I know that You are better than I think You are. You are good! Thank You for this relationship! I love You! I love You! I love You!”
These little steps of faith will lead you into a more stable experience of the Father’s embrace. That is essentially what I mean when I say, “stay with the Father.” Staying with the Father is abiding in His deep love. Walking with Him is simply turning your attention to Him often. Jesus said it this way, “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love (John 15:9-10 NIV).” Resting in His love produces much fruit. This revelation has led our spiritual family to a place where we see just as many miracles on accident as we do on purpose. When you abide, fruit happens.
Staying with the Father is the application of a truth that God is with us! The Holy Spirit never leaves us, but we leave Him out of our awareness all the time. I have to daily, hour by hour, acknowledge the Father’s presence. It’s so easy that we miss it. Again, the word “acknowledge” means “the act of knowing.” I think thoughts like this, “Father is with me. He’s doing something today. He wants to speak today. Father, what are you doing today?” Watch what starts to happen when you acknowledge Him in this way. He cannot resist believers who desire to leave the status quo and step into walking in friendship with Him. The presence of God gives every activity in life a new meaning and a new value. His presence glorifies everything it touches. The Father knows that sometimes we get distracted by things in our life. I love how He will ambush us and surprise us with His presence even when we haven’t acknowledged it. He does this many times through a random word from a stranger or a dream in the night. He has a thousand ways to get our attention and say, “Hey! By the way, I’m still here!” It amazes me that God can literally be in a room and even mature believers not realize it.
We had a worship night at a church I was pastoring, and the presence of God was so intense. I remember there were some people there who didn’t seem to be aware of or affected by this manifested presence of the Spirit. They felt nothing. Across the room, there was a girl whose leg bones were bent. The bend in her bone was a birth defect and caused her feet to point in toward each other. She told us later that if she tried to point her feet forward she would have terrible pain. She was worshiping that night, and suddenly felt the presence of God like heat on her legs. Stunned she turned her feet forward with no pain. God had straightened her bones as she worshiped. All the while, someone was thinking thoughts like, “I wish this worship night would end soon,” on the other side of the room. God was in the room and they were not aware of it. Stories like these energize me to seek to be more aware of God’s presence.
Pray this with me today: “Father, let me become more aware of Your presence and actively walk in friendship with You on a daily basis. I acknowledge that You are with me all the time, but help me to
stay with You by faith today. Amen.”
Written by Micah Usry
Featured Image by Sabine Ojeil


Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude. A.A. Milne
Today I received my first email in response to a new Ask the Life Coach column I’m writing for the
Coastal Breeze, my local newspaper. The emailer wrote, “I sent each of my three grandsons $150 and never received a thank you or even a wish for a Merry Christmas.” She’s wondering what to do about this dilemma. I frequently hear a version of this from many others. An attitude of gratitude must be taught. Somewhere, someone dropped the ball and raised kids with small hearts and little appreciation.
If the grandsons are older, I would address them directly. “Did you receive my check?” “What did you spend the money on?” Text them if they’re teens. If they are young, address your child, their parent, and ask them similar questions. Don’t sweep this under the rug if it’s bothering you. Even if the parent isn’t taking responsibility for teaching their children gratitude doesn’t mean you can’t have some influence.
Affirmation: I model gratitude.
Coaching questions: If you have ungrateful people in your life, how are you addressing the issue? What would happen if you spoke out about it? If you’re disappointed or angry about a lack of gratitude, don’t let the issue go unaddressed.


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Abstract
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is still a significant health problem worldwide. Central nervous system TB amounts to 10% of all cases of TB. Despite advances in the pharmacological management of TB, the overall outcomes remain poor with significant mortality and morbidity. There are no predictors for neurological outcomes in tuberculosis meningitis (TBM). In this study, we aimed to evaluate the role of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) C-reactive protein (CRP) in predicting mortality and neurological outcome in TBM. Method: In this observational study, all patients with TBM were recruited prospectively over a 12-month duration. Baseline demographic data, laboratory parameters, and Imaging findings were collected. CSF CRP was obtained on the CSF sample collected at the time of diagnosis. Patients were followed up at 3 months to assess neurological status and mortality. Results: Seventy-one patients with TBM were recruited in this study. The overall mortality in this study was 22.5% of patients. The primary composite outcome of mortality and adverse neurological outcome occurred in 40.8%. The CSF CRP levels ranged between 0.1 and 4.8 mg/dl, and the mean CSF CRP level was 1.11 mg/dl. The Relative risk for a patient with high CSF CRP to develop adverse outcome was 1.84 (P = 0.038). CSF CRP was a good predictor of mortality with a relative risk of 2.92 (P = 0.027). Stroke in TBM had a high incidence of 47.9% and a relative risk of 3.42 for an adverse neurological outcome. CSF CRP did not predict the occurrence of stroke. Hydrocephalus and elevated intracranial pressure were good predictors of stroke. Conclusion: TBM is a disease with significant mortality and morbidity. CRP level in the CSF can be measured, but a highly sensitive scale may be needed as the mean values were much lower compared to the serum values. CSF CRP Levels showed significant associations with adverse outcomes and mortality.
Keywords Infarcts meningitis outcome tuberculosis ASJC Scopus subject areas Microbiology (medical) Infectious Diseases


Why The Economy Will Remember Emefiele With A Smile
Last week, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, inaugurated the NEXIT-CBN Agri-Business, Small and Medium Enterprise Scheme (AGSMEIS). AGSMEIS is an initiative of the Central Bank of Nigeria under its current governor, Godwin Emefiele, in collaboration with the Bankers’ Committee aimed at promoting agri-business and SMEs as a vehicle for sustainable economic development and job creation.
The AGSMEIS is one of many interventions the CBN is implementing to empower youths, create employment, diversify the economy, ensure food security and reduce the nation’s dependence on importation.
Recently, Emefiele reiterated the apex bank’s commitment to various economic interventions targeted at youth empowerment and job creation, as well as supporting small and medium scale enterprises when he launched the Tertiary Institutions Entrepreneurship Scheme (TIES), an intervention aimed at tackling underemployment and unemployment among Nigerian youths.
“The scheme, developed in partnership with Nigerian polytechnics and universities, is designed to harness the potentials of graduate entrepreneurs by creating a paradigm shift from the pursuit of white-collar jobs to a culture of entrepreneurship for economic development and job creation.
“Bridging their financing gaps and enhancing access to low-cost credit to drive development of business is a task that can only be addressed by an innovative financing model that correlates with the complexity and dynamics of these small businesses,” Emefiele said at the event.
The CBN had, in 2018, also developed a Creative Industry Financing Initiative (CIFI), in collaboration with the Bankers’ Committee, as part of efforts to boost job creation in Nigeria, particularly among the youths. The CIFI covers the fashion, information technology, movie and music industries.
Indeed, the CBN under Emefiele, in the past eight years, has laid a solid foundation for a vibrant economy supported by macroeconomic stability. It is achieving this by looking inward and propping up the non-oil sector, which mainly comprises agriculture, manufacturing and services.
For instance, under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP), the CBN has financed 4.5 million farmers that cultivated 5.3 million hectares across 21 commodities through 23 Participating Financial Institutions in the 36 States of the federation and FCT. Before the ABP, Thailand alone exported 1.3 million metric tons of rice to Nigeria in 2014. Thanks to the ABP, Nigeria has witnessed incremental reductions in rice imports from Thailand. By 2016, rice imports from Thailand had fallen to only 58,000 metric tons. By 2021, they only exported 2,160 metric tons to Nigeria, thereby saving the country foreign exchange and helping preserve jobs in Nigeria. The unprecedented rice pyramid witnessed in Abuja recently, and the over 160 per cent rise in the number of rice mills in the country are also evidence that the CBN’s intervention in agriculture sector is yielding fruits.
Before now, there had been lending apathy by banks towards small farmers and micro, small and medium enterprises. However, through the Bankers’ Committee, Emefiele has been able to set up special fund that led to the establishment of the NIRSAL Microfinance Bank with specific mandate to implement the Agribusiness, Small and Medium Enterprises Investment Scheme.
It is refreshing to observe that Emefiele and the apex bank he superintends are proving pessimists wrong by being focused on leveraging on the developmental component of his mandate as the proactive tool to support the real economy – agriculture, manufacturing and services – which are the elastic sectors of the economy for enhanced economic growth and development.
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London Luton Airport (LLA) has been awarded the Airport Council International’s (ACI) Level 3 Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA) certification after reducing its direct carbon emissions by more than 30%. The award comes just 18 months after LLA joined the scheme.
LLA joined the ACA at the end of 2019 amid a 23% increase in passenger numbers between 2016 and 2019. The airport achieved this accreditation in these conditions by switching to a 100% renewable electricity supply that includes sources such as solar, wind and hydroelectric power. The airport also upgraded its air handling units to increase efficiency, resulting in an annual reduction of over 3% of the total electricity consumption. Reducing the number of lights across the site and switching to more efficient LED equivalents similarly aided the airport’s decarbonization. Additionally, by installing a new heating system, LLA reduced their gas consumption by 16%.
The airport has also recently submitted to responses to the UK government’s Jet Zero Consultation, and the Environmental Audit Committee’s inquiry into net zero aviation. In both submissions, the airport has called on the government to commit and contribute financially to support the sector in making the necessary changes and investments. LLA has committed to achieving carbon neutrality for its own operations by no later than 2026, and the airport is currently developing a carbon reduction strategy to achieve net zero emissions by 2040. The airport will continue to work closely with stakeholders and partners to drive further reductions in carbon emissions.
The ACA Scheme is a global carbon management framework for airports, managed by Airport Council International (ACI). The framework is intended to help drive the reduction of carbon emissions across all areas of airport operations, from airport infrastructure to airlines, surface access providers, ground handlers and retailers.
Alberto Martin, CEO of LLA, said, “Achieving this Accreditation is a significant milestone for the airport in its sustainable growth journey. However, we know that there is more to do and we remain committed to reducing our carbon emissions across both our operations and the site itself. We look forward to continuing to work with our partners as we move toward our shared goal of making aviation as sustainable as possible.”
Olivier Jankovec, director general of ACI Europe, added, “I would like to congratulate the whole team at LLA for successfully achieving Level 3 of the Airport Carbon Accreditation. It is a testament to the work they have done in driving down emissions and, importantly, engaging with companies operating at its premises to drive third-party carbon reductions too. It is a challenging road ahead for the aviation industry and significant efforts are required to make sustainable aviation a possibility. However, it is great to see that LLA is addressing this and we look forward to seeing what’s next.”


Run4Fun #Fit4Life
I always led a lazy and carefree life until one day when my health gave up on me, and I realised I had to do something about it. Thanks to my sedentary lifestyle, I had gained a lot of weight gradually over the years and in 2013, the weighing scale swung to 92 kgs, making me realise that I fall into the obese category.
I visited my family doctor, who advised me to reduce my weight by at least 14 kgs. I tried the gym and even coupled it with crash diets for a few months. A couple of times during intensive training, I injured my lower back severely while lifting heavy weights. I was then advised to keep away from the gym for six months and before I knew it, I had gained the little I managed to lose!
After a year and a half of tireless efforts and still determined to make it happen, I started with small walks to nearby places; beginning with half a kilometre walk and run and then slowly progressed to three km each day. As days passed, I started enjoying my walks and runs and gradually ramped up to longer distances, sometimes alone or with a local running group. A few months later, with the suggestion of a local physician, I also started a structured nutritious diet plan. In due course, I felt my energy levels go up and could see my weight drop, both physically and on the scale! Towards the end of 2015, I participated in my first 10 km monsoon marathon at Chembur, Mumbai organised by the Sports United and thereafter in a half marathon run to Satara hill spanning 21.1 km. I had attained my ideal weight of 78 kg by this time.
At this juncture when I had started enjoying my participation in the marathons, I began developing injuries around my ankle owing to a flat foot which made it difficult for me to run.
I was told that like all other sports, running also has a technique and requires a specific training to remain injury free.
I did not take my chances and consulted a sports therapist, who counselled me to buy a variant of gel-based in-sole shoe for flat foot and alternatively used orthotics for firm support. Despite all of these, my ankle injury kept recurring, though not as frequent as earlier days.
In March 2017, I had planned a two-day visit to a site at Banaras, to kick start an official project. However due to committed timelines and to ensure a successful handing over, I had to extend my stay by three weeks.
Since my stay was scheduled only for two days, I did not carry my pair of running shoes. A few days of no exercise, made me restless and on the fourth day of my stay there, I decided to walk barefoot on the ghats of the Ganges. My first experience of walking barefoot was a little jittery, to be honest, but by the next morning, I was subconsciously prepared for it. That night, I experienced pain and burning sensation in my feet, but after speaking to a friend who is an experienced barefoot runner for over five years, I gave some cold therapy to my feet which brought a lot of relief. The following morning, I jogged around the Banaras roads. Even though I felt my feet brush against the hard surface of the road, I did not face any problem. For the rest of my trip, I was at complete ease, running around the Banaras University campus.
Once back in town, my experienced friend advised me to buy special shoes known as ‘Vibrams’ to ensure injuryfree barefoot running on rough surfaces. He also asked me to follow a disciplined schedule of strengthening my lower body and advised me to keep a visibility of three to four meters as against ten meters while running with shoes. It’s been over two years of running barefoot in countless events and without facing any injuries.
It is said that good things spread fast and so did the positive vibes in me stemming from my passion for running. The first ones to be influenced were my family members. My parents and wife started going for regular morning walks. Soon to follow them, was my seven-year-old daughter Shamika, who then later took to participating in short distance (three km) runs with me. Many of my office colleagues too connected with me and we formed a WhatsApp group called Run4Fun#Fit4Life.
Presently, the strength of our group is 19 members and we use this platform to mutually share our fitness plans, diets, workout schedules, footwear selection, information on upcoming events etc. It is heartening to hear my friends and colleagues share their transformational journey, after following my fitness regime. I have also been able to connect with some likeminded people at our customer front and have motivated them to adapt to a healthier lifestyle.
I want to end it by saying that running has not only made me fit but has improved my focus, overall wellbeing, ability to multitask and manage my stress levels.
– Piyush Dixit Power


LOSS
The key aim of the
LOSS project is to unravel: How economic hardship affects support for socially conservative political agendas aimed at restricting the rights of marginalised groups (ethnic linguistic and religious minorities migrants LGBTQIA + and women) and how local and national policy contexts affect this relationship.
Many European societies have recently experienced growing prejudice towards marginalised groups and the rise in support for far-right parties advocating to restrict the rights of these groups. These developments threaten the cohesion of national and local communities across Europe. While aggregate level evidence suggests that financial crises generally coincide with increased support for far-right parties we do not understand why this happens.
By developing a groundbreaking interdisciplinary theoretical framework that integrates insights about the role of loss from political science sociology social psychology and behavioural economics the LOSS project contends that experiences of economic hardship translate into specific narratives of loss that in turn trigger support for social conservative political agendas. To empirically examine the importance of narratives of loss the LOSS project employs an innovative multi-method empirical approach combining qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. To uncover the role of context the project compares five European countries (Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom) that vary in the level of compensation provided for economic hardship and local contexts within these countries.
This website area is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme(Grant agreement No. 864687)


At Workinton, we believe in the urgent need for sustainability and the imperative to play our role in protecting the planet. It was an honour to host the “Upcycled Bots”, a youth program in partnership with Studio 5/6 Qatar and Elite Paper Recycling for Qatar Sustainability Week 2022, a week-long campaign by Earthna Center for a Sustainable Future.
Students aged 11-14 joined us at Workinton M7 for hands-on workshops on sustainability, upcycling, and creating robots from electrical waste to promote awareness about sustainability in Qatar. The four-day seminar was followed by a hackathon, where we saw the students display great skill and imagination.
Qatar Sustainability Week is a National Campaign that aims to engage the community in sustainability-related activities to achieve the global sustainability goals outlined in the Qatar National Vision 2030. It is a great medium to promote the country’s sustainability targets and encourage community engagement with relevant stakeholders.
Studio 5/6 is a community program set up by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to nurture kids and youth as digital learners by sharpening their 21st-century learning skills as they develop in an ever-changing digital environment.
Participants first visited Elite Paper Recycling to learn about the process of paper recycling, then attended extensive 2-hour sessions for three days on how to disassemble electrical components and understand how the components work, ultimately participating in a hackathon.
During the Hackathon, the participants made their own projects using the electronic components and recycled cardboard donated by Elite Paper Recycling with the projects being judged and a winner announced.


Compliance with Cosmetics Act – justifiable reason for non-use of trademark?
The IP Trial and Appeal Board (IPTAB) recently rendered notable decisions regarding acceptable defences to non-use cancellation actions against registered trademarks. In particular, the IPTAB found that non-use on cosmetics due to a likelihood of consumer confusion with a mark famous for medicinal products is an acceptable defence.
The case concerned a South Korean pharmaceutical company, which had registered the marks MADECASSOL and 마데카솔 (the Korean transliteration of MADECASSOL), designating, among other goods, cosmetics. The registrant was also the producer of a famous medicinal skin product sold under the 마데카솔 mark. The petitioner, a South Korean cosmetics company, filed non-use cancellation actions against these marks, asserting that the registrant had not used them on cosmetic goods within the relevant three-year period. In response, the registrant acknowledged that it had not used the marks, but argued that there was legal justification for this.
The registrant argued that it had been abiding by the Cosmetics Act, which prohibits labels or ads which are likely to mislead consumers into thinking cosmetics are medicines, as it had not used its registered marks on cosmetic products to prevent consumers from confusing them with its mark used on medicinal products (the Patent Court had confirmed the reputation of that mark in a previous decision). In other words, since the mark was famous with regard to medicinal products, its use on a cosmetic product would likely lead consumers to believe that such product was medicinal, resulting in a violation of the Cosmetics Act.
The IPTAB accepted the registrant's arguments and rejected the cancellation petitions. As a result, the registrant can prevent its famous marks MADECASSOL and 마데카솔from being diluted by blocking third-party registration or use of the marks on cosmetics, even if the registrant cannot use the marks on cosmetics.
The IPTAB's recent decisions (which have become final and conclusive) are noteworthy because they broadly interpret ‘legitimate reasons’ for not using a registered mark. Thus, it will be interesting to see whether the scope of legitimate reasons for non-use will continue to expand in future cancellation cases.
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According to a press release from NASA’s Washington, DC, headquarters, astronomers have successfully captured the first direct image of a planet outside of our solar system using the James Webb Space Telescope. Since the exoplanet, which is a planet outside of our solar system, is a gas giant without a rocky surface, it cannot support life. The image, as seen through four different light filters, demonstrates how Webb’s strong infrared vision can readily capture worlds outside of our solar system, paving the path for upcoming observations that will provide more information about exoplanets than has ever been available.
On 25 December 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope was launched from Kourou, French Guiana, on an Ariane 5 rocket. It arrived at the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point, about 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 mi) from Earth in January 2022. This image was taken with Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), both of which are equipped with coronagraphs. As stars are brighter than planets, it is challenging to take direct images of exoplanets.
Sasha Hinkley, associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, who oversaw this observational effort with a significant international team, declared that this was a “transformative moment,” not just for Webb but for astronomy in general. CSA and ESA are partners in the international mission known as Webb, which is headed by NASA (Canadian Space Agency).


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Which Role does Art Play in Youth Education for Sustainability? Can Art Challenge Marginalisation?
Nørrebrogade 39, 1. tv., 2200 København N
Presentation and discussion of NOAH activist Johanna Paschen’s M.Sc. dissertation
Language: EnglishEntrance free, Snacks & Drinks provided!
Reducing marginalisation in youth education for sustainability is crucial since it strives to teach and understand environmental and social justice.
However, applying and practising social and environmental sustainability in teaching institutions or organisations still has to be improved.
This afternoon we will explore the role of art in European youth education for sustainability. We'll look at, how potentials of art can transform dominant Western industrial cultural assumptions in European youth education for sustainability to reduce marginalisation.
Link to dissertation: https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9097261


The National Women’s Law Center and the undersigned 123 organizations and 231 individuals request that the Department of Education extend the comment period for the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (“Title IX”) entitled
Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance (RIN 1870-AA14) for a minimum of 60 days beyond the currently scheduled public comment deadline. We also encourage you to schedule public hearings at school districts and college campuses throughout the country to encourage additional input from students, teachers, administrators, and advocates. The proposed 60-day comment period is insufficient to receive meaningful public participation in the rulemaking process.
The proposed changes are extensive and far-reaching. If finalized, they will drastically alter students’ rights and will affect almost every aspect of a school’s obligation to respond to sexual harassment against students, which includes support services, investigations, and resolution procedures. These proposals will also impact all levels of our nation’s educational system, resulting in changes for millions of students, from kindergarten to graduate school. For a regulation of this magnitude, interested parties need adequate time to thoroughly review the proposed changes and provide essential analysis and input.
School administrators, teachers, advocates, parents, and especially students, deserve the opportunity to be meaningfully heard in this process. Yet the proposed 60-day period comes in the midst of the holiday season. This is a particularly busy time for students, who are juggling final exams, preparations for winter break, and traveling home for the holidays. Teachers and school administrators are similarly overburdened. As agencies routinely extend comment periods based on public requests, we ask that the comment period be extended to accommodate these unique challenges faced by students and educators—those whose rights and obligations will be most affected by these proposed changes.
When Secretary Devos announced her intentions to alter Title IX, she promised to “launch a transparent notice-and-comment process to incorporate the insights of all parties” and “seek public feedback and combine institutional knowledge, professional expertise, and the experiences of students” to inform any proposed changes. We ask that the Department affirm its commitment to a wide-reaching notice-and-comment period by extending the deadline by 60 days and holding public hearings with community stakeholders. Doing so will ensure that those most affected by these proposed changes are given the opportunity to engage and give the Department the benefit of a robust rule-making process. For questions, please contact Emily Martin ([email protected]) or Shiwali Patel ([email protected]) at the National Women’s Law Center at (202) 588-5180.
Sincerely,
National Women’s Law Center, joined by 123 organizations and 231 individuals (listed in full here).


Digital Therapeutics Market Overview:
The study is consolidated into major segments and further into sub-segments, such as by Application (Diabetes, Obesity, CVD, Respiratory Diseases, Smoking Cessation, CNS Diseases, Others), By End User (Patients, Providers, Payers, Employers, and others) to forecast the Digital Therapeutics Market Size by value; also includes the analysis of past market dynamics from 2016 – 2021, considering 2021 as the base year. The Asia Pacific is predicted to gain a larger market attraction during the forecast period. This growth of the market is attributed to the surge in demand for effective healthcare and a rise in smartphone penetration. Further, advanced internet facilities and high-speed networks are the factors estimated to support the growth of the market. Additionally, increased government expenditure on healthcare, and demand for personal care devices and related services, is also expected to accelerate digital therapeutics market growth. The market is projected to grow at a significant pace reaching a CAGR of approximately 26.7%, over the forecast period of 2022–2028, despite a considerable fall in Service Operator sales during the initial phase of pandemic spread and lockdown restrictions imposed globally. In a recent research report by Market Research Community, the Digital Therapeutics Market is expected to surpass USD 24.84 Billion by the year 2028, from USD 4.74 Billion in 2021. As a subset of digital health, Digital Therapeutics Market uses software that is based on clinical research to deliver therapeutic interventions to patients directly. All platforms and technology that offer digital solutions to improve the healthcare delivery are collectively referred to as "digital health." Telehealth, mobile health, smart gadgets, wearable technology, sensors, and other digital health technologies are examples. Smoking cessation, CVDs, and obesity are the segments estimated to supplement the growth of the market during the forecast period. The rising adoption of digital therapeutics in managing diseases is estimated to drive the growth of the segment. Some of the digital therapeutics include Respiro by Amiko, Propeller by Propeller Health, CareTRx by Teva, and others. These therapeutics have the potential to transform the treatment of COPD and asthma which is projected to boost the growth of the market. Lastly, the report includes a regional analysis and country analysis with the latest trends, along with the major key players including Omada Health, Inc., WellDoc, Inc., 2Morrow, Inc., Livongo Health, Inc. (Teladoc Health, Inc.), Propeller Health, Fitbit Inc., Canary Health, Mango Health, Noom, Inc., Pear Therapeutics. Contact: Market Research Community [email protected] https://marketresearchcommunity.com/


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Does face-to-face interaction still facilitate information transfer despite proliferating communication technologies? We use the COVID-19 collapse in such interactions to examine their influence on information flow in the stock market around earnings announcements. Using daily, county-level abnormal mobility of U.S. residents to proxy for face-to-face interaction, we find that firms located in counties with lower abnormal mobility experience a weaker immediate price reaction to earnings announcements and a larger post-announcement drift. Our findings suggest that lower face-to-face interactions dampen price discovery in financial markets, and that investor attention is a potential mechanism of this effect.


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Knot of the Soul deeply signifies a longstanding dialogue with my friend and interlocutor Stefania Pandolfo. For a decade now, we have discussed our shared interest in questions centered around ʿilm al-nafs—the “science of the soul.” What does it mean to talk about a “science of the soul,” both in its historical and ethnographic instantiations? Can the topographies of the nafs (soul, spirit, psyche) be considered and compared across diverse discursive traditions and intellectual formations? If my work unearths a genealogical connection between the Islamic concept of al-la-shuʿur (an unknown-known) and the Freudian notion of the unconscious, Pandolfo’s work explores a tradition of Islamic therapeutic practice that is convivial with the unconscious. If the nafs is, within this tradition, a space where the Divine can be manifested, then it is also a space for the potential transformation of the soul. What is this space of transformation within Islamic practice and does it find echoes in the psychoanalytic space of the clinic? Crucially, such questions are not merely academic but concern how we engage psychoanalysis in our own lives.
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